teven Ibarra attended University of California at  Berkeley and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies in 2003. Steven then went on to attend law school at the University of West Los Angeles where he graduated cum laude in 2007. In May of the same year, Steven was admitted to the California State Bar and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

During his final year of law school, Steven was invited to participate in the 2006 University of San Diego National Criminal Moot Court Competition.  The issue was whether Miranda and its progeny require an accused be specifically apprised of his right to have counsel present during police interrogation in order to adequately inform the accused of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel.  Steven wrote a brief set in the United States Supreme Court which earned him second place in the Top-10 Briefs category out of over 40 law schools across the country including William and Mary and UC Hastings.

Steven is a member of the Mexican-American Bar Association (MABA) and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.  His experience includes a clerkship for a civil rights litigation firm and also offering free legal advice to low-income individuals on behalf of a Mexican consulate sponsored program.